Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classification of things: the intellect ultimately recognizes and latches onto the distinction between self and not-self, and denies the consciousness the direct understanding of the unity of things and people, often realized during a high. This direction of thought encourages a profound sense of isolation, pessimism, and despair--the logical result of the preceding tendencies...
...NIXON'S OPPONENT were another man of corrupted sensibilities, we could rightfully despair. But George McGovern is a decent man. Pitted against a President who spins lies and breaks lives with extravagance, McGovern, despite the claims of his opponent, emerges as a sober and honest representative of the American heartland...
Musing on his dilemma as he flew across the darkened country on Dakota Queen II, McGovern slumped wearily in his seat and nibbled grapes from a tray of fruit. Somehow combining hope with despair, he confessed: "I don't understand the polls, but I never understood them in the primaries, either. If we can win in California and New York and then add Illinois and Ohio and some others...
...Despair Saturday's ignominious debut of the pass defense. Restic is planning the changes for nest week. "We're playing the best people we have." Restie said. "We'll just have to work harder on the same things this week. "We'll have to be more aggressive...
Into this "wasteland" climate of despair, a countermyth of hope, has been introduced. It may be identified as the myth of the New Arcadia. The New Arcadians see their salvation in a return to Eden innocence. Arcadian man will not reprogram the world; externalized change is the Promethean trap. Arcadian man will change his own head. He will retap the sources within his archetypal self. A million individual religious experiences will take place, and these will change the world...